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A 3 page overview of recent Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines in hand hygiene. This paper reviews organism susceptibility to soap and water as well as to alcohol solutions. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to another has preoccupied mankind for centuries. In the seventeenth century physicians of the day used a complicated ritual and produced amulets to be worn in defense against plague
(Baldwin 227). Obviously the success rate from "treatment" was practically non-existent and when a recovery did occur it was due to chance or divine intervention. By the eighteenth
century, however, links were already being made between hygiene and disease transmission. Hand cleanliness is more than simple personal hygiene for health care workers. It is, in fact,
one of the most critical factors in infection control. Soap and water, however, is not sufficient in itself to eliminate the transmission of disease from one patient to the
other via the unclean hands of the health care worker. Indeed, recent guidelines from the Center for Disease Control recommends the judicious use of antiseptic agents to clean hands
to prevent passing pathogens from one patient to another. Boyce and Pittet (2002) observe that pathogens can be passed both directly and indirectly
from one patient to another via transmission on the hands of health care workers. In one test health care workers were asked to touch the groin area of a
patient as though they were taking a femoral pulse for a duration of fifteen seconds. The worker was then asked to wash their hands with soap and water or
to cleanse them with alcohol. Then the worker was asked to touch a urinary catheter tube with one finger. Cultures from that catheter tube demonstrated that pathogens had
been transmitted on the hands of the health care worker (Boyce and Pittet, 2002). Health care workers do not even have
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